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The Dream

TreeBride has risen up from a deep desire to activate around eco consciousness, sustainability, impacting life choices and co-creating conversations. The Art Activism arising is to build upon and re direct resources, energy and our collective future as it relates to use of forest based commodity, fast fashion, and the environmental impacts of both.

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From the Garment District at the heart of a continent, there is rising an interest in the hearts of women to speak to the alarming imbalance of Fashion, its resourcing and sustainability. From a center where reclaiming and reuse are key, comes the plea to use the symbolic wedding dress and its ceremony to pledge protection. Partnership to water, to land, to trees and to those that labour.

Artists are taking their vows, first to the trees at risk in the Provincial Forest of the Duck Mountains, but also to the land surrounding where once crops were grown that created circular economy for textiles, to the water - protecting and recognizing it as the source of life, and to action - vowing to create the necessary uprising that will honour our connectivity to earth from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to Creations Ordinance

     PRESS * RELEASE

                                              #TreeBride

– Commences November 1st, 2021 and runs throughout the People's Summit for Climate Justice (7th-10th November at COP26) with the posting of vows at #treebride across all social media platforms on the 10th

A new spirit is emerging in the heart of Canada. The TreeBride Movement is a social activation calling upon each of us to pledge ourselves as we are moved to, and comes from a profound need to respond in the face of environmental crisis. Our government's initiatives are abysmal and inadequate, and the time to act has come. TreeBride invites us to make a pact with the land by changing our relationship status and shifting toward a state of balance. The land connects our health and wealth to something sacred and invaluable— becoming its bride, one discerns this. Witnessing the vows enacted across social media, we visualize a community of individuals activated and dedicated to caring for Earth—a protective and regenerative movement. A conversation is engaged that will alter how we farm, how we clothe ourselves and address our needs, and finally how we access and utilize resources for our homes and businesses. These shifts begin when each of us apprehends the urgency of our situation, for we are out of time and must act.

On the first of November, 2021 we shall call upon TreeBrides everywhere to take their vows. Using the symbol of the wedding dress and the language of marital ceremony, we solemnly express our solidarity with land stewards from all nations. Then, on the 10th of November, we will all post our vows together. The power of bearing witness and taking action—at a time when corporations receive ever greater subsidies, limits for resource extraction remain untenably high, and Indigenous land claims are flagrantly dismissed—is beyond calculation. The voices of the people must speak out as one!

The TreeBrides are a group of animists, artists, and activists united by a shared objection to the logging of Duck Mountain Provincial Park and Forest, and formed in response to the proposed renewal of contracts. We believe that established methods of resource management are outmoded and must be replaced with innovative, sustainable ones if we are to survive. We live in the very centre of Canada, the traditional territories of Treaty 1 and Treaty 2 in the Manitoba heartland, and it's plain to see our time is up. Corporations show no will to change. Women must come forward to lead arm-in-arm with the Original Peoples, and will need allies to shift the balance. The Wedding Dress is our symbol both for the inflated value and the misguided ideals of the garment industry. Woven into its fabric is the land, once the source of all materials before overproduction, chemical inundation, and a disdain for circularity in agribusiness brought us low. The need for sustainable, regenerative practice is so great that we wed ourselves to the very trees to fulfill it. Sharing our vows creates the potential to reach far beyond our place of origin. Women are feeling this the world over. Our allies stand ready. Letters and petitions have their place, but a peaceful and powerful action creates a vision of global solidarity.

            ~  Our voices together make thunder.

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                  The Vows...

I so solemnly swear.

From this day forward, I do promise these things;

To Honour this Natural Presence, as a part of life inseparable from my own.

To Protect and Preserve, I pledge myself in allyship,

For better for worse, for richer for poorer

I vow in harmony the regeneration and respect of natural order,

To Love and to Cherish, with Creation as my witness 

I so solemnly swear.

 

So mote it be

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